Portable outdoor swimming pool



April 3, 1928.

P. KIRKHAM ET AL.

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ATTONEYS.

Patented 3, 1 928.

UNITED STATES 1,664,887 PATENT OFFICE.

IHILIP KIRKHAM, OF RIVERSIDE, CONNECTICUT, AND GUSTAVE A. SGHEEL, OI J'LCK- SON HEIGHTS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS TO F. A. 0, SCHWARZ, OI NEW YORK, N. Y L

CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PORTABLE OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOL.

Application filed August 27 Our invention relates primarily to portable outdoor swimming poolsin which a foldable container of waterproof canvas 01 material is supported by posts driven into 5 the ground and by stretcher bars connecting the tops of the posts, to which stretcher bars the upper edges of the container are detachably secured. a

Our invention comprises novel means for securing the posts to the ground and the stretcher bars to the posts and to the container, and also means for filling and emptying the container with water, so that a swimming pool of large size canbe quickly and easily set up and filled with water, will be firmly supported in place, and can be as quickly and easily taken down and folded for storage and transportation.

In order that our invention may be fully understood, we shall first describe in detail the mode in which we at present prefer to carry the invention into practice and then particularly point out the novel features of the invention in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application in which like parts are designated by the same numbers in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a. portable outdoor swimming pool embodying our invention.

Figures 2, 3, 4, are detail views of parts hereafter referred to.

In the drawings, 10 designates the container which is preferably made rectangular in form of suitable flexible waterproof material, such as, for example, waterproof canvas.

The container 10, is formed along all its upper edgeswith a deep tubular hem 11, which is cut out to form openings 12, for the supporting posts 13 and stretcher bars 14, at the corners, and openings 15 midway of the sides and ends for the same' purpose.

The supporting posts 13, are formed with points 16 at their lower ends for driving them into the earth or ground, and at their upper ends are bound with external metallic ferrules 17, carrying rigid upwardly projecting metallic pins 18.

The stretcher bars 14, of which there are in this example four, one for eachend and one for each side, are formed midway of the sides with vertical holes 19 to receive the pins 1927. Serial No. 215,858.

and passed over the pins 18 on the corner posts, and the holed midway points passed over the pins 18 on the side posts.

Pointed stakes 21 having lateral rope recesses 22, are then driven into the ground on both sides of each corner and side 0st, and guy ropes 23 passed and fastene to and around the recessed stakes and the pins 18 on the posts projecting above the steretcher bars to hold and steady the posts in position against the weight of the contained water.

From the side of the container 10, at the bottom leads a flexible tube 24, preferably of the same material as the container, which can be thrown over the side of the filled container to retain the water therein or lowered over the side to draw the water from the container.

To fold, pack, and remove this swimming pool when completed, it is simply necessary to unfasten the guy ropes 23 from the stakes and posts, remove the stretcher bars from the posts and from the hem 11 of the container, take up the posts and stakes, fold up the con tainer and pack it with the ropes, stakes, posts and stretcher bars.

It is evident that many chan es may be made in the details of our invention without departing from the boundaries thereof as defined by the following claims.

For example, the stretcher bars 14 may be reenforced as shown by metallic strips extending along and secured to their under sides, and the bottom of the container by an outer ply of the same material as shown in Figure 3.

We claim as our invention:

1. A portable outdoor swimming pool, comprising posts adapted to be driven into the ground, stretcher bars connecting the upper ends of the posts, a foldable water- 15 specifi proof container and means for securin the u per ed of the mntainer detachab y to fife stretc er bars.

2. A portable outdoor swimming 001 5 comprising posts adapted to be driven into 10 upper ends of the (posts, a fold'able waterproof container, an means for securing the upper edges of the container detachably to the stretcher bars.

'3. A ortable outdoor swimming pool as in claim 1, in which the posts are provided on their upper ends with metallic ferrules having vertical metallic pins projecting throu h holes in the stretcher bars. 4. ports le outdoor swimming pool as i A specified in claim 1, in which the stretcher bars are rabbeted and perforated on their ends and the corner posts are provided on their upper ends with metallic ferrules, having vertical metallic pins rojecting through the holes in the interlocking rabbeted ends of the joined stretcher bars.

5. A ortable outdoor swimming pool as specifi pins to pass through and project above the stretcher bars, and the guy ropes are attachable to the ground stakes and to the ends of the pins on the posts projecting above the stretcher bar's.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

PHILIP KIRKHAM. GUSTAVE A. SCHEEL.

in claim 2, in which the posts are provided on their upper ends with vertical 

